Match all occurrences of a regex?

Question

Is there a quick way to find every match of a regular expression in Ruby? I've looked through the Regex object in the Ruby STL and searched on Google to no avail.

Answer 1

I can see where the frustration comes from. Actually the method is not in the Regexp class, but rather in the String class:

From https://apidock.com/ruby/String/scan :

iterate through str, matching the pattern (which may be a Regexp or a String). For each match, a result is generated and either added to the result array or passed to the block.

In action:

"This is a string with many letters inside of it".scan(/is/)

=> ["is", "is"]

Hope this helps!